Demand Planning

Purpose and Overview

The purpose of this job description is to attract highly qualified candidates for the position of Demand Planning. As a growing company, we are seeking an individual who can contribute their expertise and passion to our team. The Demand Planning role is crucial in ensuring efficient production planning and forecasting, as well as providing excellent customer service. The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

As a Demand Planner, you will be responsible for analyzing data and trends to forecast demand accurately. You will work closely with various departments to ensure production planning is aligned with customer demand. Additionally, you will be responsible for creating slide decks and reports to present forecasting management and RCA connector analysis. This role requires a high level of attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Diversity Hiring 
• Generate baseline forecast for touch SKUs.
• Ensure the models in the tool are refreshed regularly and produce optimal results (improve demand planning algorithms).
• Review baseline forecast outputs and validate as and when necessary with Market.
• Generate total demand forecast for no touch SKUs.
• Ensure the models in the tool are refreshed regularly and produce optimal results (improve demand planning algorithms).
• Run analysis to provide the assumptions to explain the outputs of the tool for Market Collaboration Planner.
• To generate and manage the total demand plan for all touch SKUs.
• Capture the baseline and manually cleanse if necessary.
• Challenge assumptions from Sales & Marketing Teams for forecast uplifts to baseline. Apply Sales & Marketing uplifts to baseline.

Requirements

Primary Skills

• Prepare slide decks and assumptions for S&OP sign-off.
• Capture forecast changes in APO.
• Release total forecast in APO.
• Analyse and review forecast performance using weekly reports.
• Good Experience in Forecasting, S&OP, Forecast Analysis, Baseline creation.
• Hands on experience in Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, Promotional SKU analysis, RCA, Customer handling.

Secondary Skills

• 4+ Years of Experience in Demand Planning.
• Experience in ERP (preferrable Kinaxis).
• Good in excel & documents handling.
• Industry knowledge of Manufacturing and FMCG.

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.